Baldur's Gate 3: 10 Secret Instant Deaths You Must AVOID
6. Helping The Mind Flayer
When you start to take your first steps in the world of a video game, you expect some degree of leniency. You're new to everything, so the developers should be a little more forgiving about making mistakes, right?
Well, apparently Larian would bag to differ. The first act of the game contains plenty of moments that punish you for your incompetence, including an instant death cutscene that can be triggered within the first ten minutes of the game.
Not too far away from your starting location in Act 1, you encounter a dying illithid who attempts to hypnotize you and feed on your delicious and nutritious brain.
It goes without saying that you should keep your brain a fair distance away from its tentacles, so if you're curious or naive enough to let the illithid manipulate you, don't expect a Deus ex machina to save you.
Submitting to the mind flayer will allow it to feed on your brain and trigger a gruesome cutscene if you act, after which you'll lose all HP and die. And if you haven't recruited anyone to your party yet, you're basically forced to restart.
In retrospect, that one should've been obvious.